For those who own a MDUW I am curious to know what kind of samples suit/compliment the onboard synthesis of the MDUW
From my brief experience with a non UW the synthesis engines included are incredibly versatile for all manor of drum sounds, textures and ambience.
The sample memory does seem best suited for short percussion sounds due to the limited space although this is very well covered already within the machines.
I would imagine that field recordings/vocals/acoustic/synths would seem to bridge what is more difficult to achieve on the MD or maybe I have that really wrong as some engines sound very acoustic and frequency rich.
I would be curious to hear what peoples findings are.
I’ve actually not tried looping pads, I only use significantly cropped versions of pad samples with fades applied. @waftlord seems to be on to something here though, thank you!
I prepare the samples in Ableton first, usually they’re ones from my library that I tweak to be shorter with a fade, then convert to mono 22500, convert to SDS then SYX then transfer.
I prefer to take individual elements out of the break, but it’s simple enough to slice into sections. I would p-lock the start point, it’s far too imprecise for me.
worthing noting that dependent on whether the ROM is in slots 1-24 its start point will be exponential and if in 25+ linear. i always forget this and can trip me up in certain scenarios.
It does, though if you chop it into quarters it’s only four machines out of 16, which isn’t too bad. It’s how I use the Machinedrum, won’t work for everyone.
